Hilla de Rebay
Hilla von Rebay (born the May 31st 1890 with Strasbourg, deceased the September 27th 1967 with Greens Farms, Connecticut) was a painter German specialist in the Abstract art. She was the artistic director of the Fondation Guggenheim.
Hilla de Rebay studies painting in Paris (Académie Julian) and with Munich, of 1907 to 1913.
Thanks to Jean Arp qu´elle meeting in 1916 with Zurich, it comes into contact with Herwath Walden, owner of the gallery Der Sturm to Berlin, and its circle d artists, of which Kandinsky.
She forms soon part of the Group of November and in 1923, she founds the Crater, with Otto Nebel and Rudolf Bauer.
After a stay in Italy, she emigrates with New York in 1927 and in 1928, she meets Solomon R. Guggenheim, which entrusts to him in 1937 the artistic director of its collection; in 1939, it directs the first museum of not-figurative painting, with Manhattan. During the Second world war, it supports many artists remained in Europe. In 1943, it calls upon l´architecte Frank Lloyd Wright for the design of the Guggenheim museum of New York, which opens its doors in 1959, without it. Quite qu´elle was the engine of this project, it is little isolated of time after the death of Guggenheim in 1949.
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